Child Development 3-5 Review

What is a preschoolers most important job?

• Cleaning up after themselves

• Playing to develop and learn.

• Washing their hands

• Making an allowance

Answer explanation

PLAY!  This is how they learn about the world and develop social, emotional, physical  and cognitive skills for life.

What theorists that we have explored are considered Constructivists?

(3 Main Ones)

• Kohlberg, Erikson & Bandura

• Maslow, Piaget & Bloom

• Vygotsky, Erikson & Skinner

• Piaget, Vygotsky and Bandura

An  approach to learning that thinks people construct their own learning through experiences.

• Pessimism

• Behaviorism

• Constructivism

• Relativism

Which of the following is NOT an important reason to provide preschoolers and opportunity to do household chores?

• It builds the child's skills & confidence

• It makes the parents life easier

• It helps them feel a sense of belonging & purpose

• It helps them develop life skills

Answer explanation

Having a preschooler do chores often makes the parents life more difficult in the short term. They have to slow down, support the child and often accept sub par work in order to provide this opportunity for learning to their child.

Which of the following are important things to consider when assigning chores to preschoolers?

• Make sure it is age appropriate.

• Make sure they do it right.

• Make sure you guide/support & encourage

• Allow plenty of time for them to complete the task

• Punish them if they do it wrong.

_________ are the ability to make movements using the small muscles in our hands and wrists.

• Gross Motor Skills

• Bowstaff Skills

• Language Skills

• Fine Motor Skills

What skill is closely related to the development of fine motor skills?

• Handwriting

• Jump Roping

• Balance

• Reading

Which of the following life skills DO NOT require fine motor skills?

• Personal Hygiene

• Dressing oneself

• Listening

• Feeding Oneself

Watching TV/media with your child to monitor and guide what they are being exposed to is called _________.

• Submitting

• Previewing

• Co-viewing

• Reviewing

___________ is a mental structure to help us understand how things work. It has to do with how we organize knowledge. As we take in new information, we connect it to other things we know, believe, or have experienced. And those connections form a sort of structure in the brain.

• Accommodation

• Assimilationg

• Schema

• Operation